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ACT proposes “one law for all” – again
Can a return to constitutional struggles boost the ACT Party’s flagging support?
The ACT Party wants to bring the courts to heel and to reassert the supremacy of parliament. Why is this so controversial?
Opportunity: what does TOP really stand for?
And how well does it all add up?
The Opportunity Party has enjoyed a run of four successive published poll results above the 5% threshold, going as high as 8%. Now that they’ve broken through, more people may jump aboard to give them a try...
Luxon survives, but can he improve his performance?
Please click through to my free-access column on The Conversation.
Like many others, I’m sure, I was on tenterhooks today. Would National MPs roll their leader, or not? Would NZ get a new prime minister?
But Labour are in no position to c...
National Leadership in Crisis
Luxon moves against leakers, again. But Hipkins isn't faring much better.
Please click through to read my free-access article on The Conversation. This was drafted as events were developing this morning, and we’ll see how things go after t...
Hipkins's pathway to another defeat
“Oppositions don’t win elections. Governments lose them.”
That’s a well-worn political adage, applicable to Westminster systems. A change of government, it’s said, is due largely to people getting sick and tired of the incumbent one, so al...
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Political commentator, academic and author, based in central Auckland. Honorary Research Associate, Public Policy Institute, University of Auckland.
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